MIAMI — One Miami police officer was released Friday while another was still recovering after they were injured during a shooting on Thursday in the city’s Allapattah neighborhood.
Police also announced the arrest of the suspect’s brother.
Miami Police Department Chief Manuel A. Morales said one police officer was shot in the ankle, another police officer was shot on the knee, and Mason Triana died after the shooting at about 7:45 a.m., Thursday, in the area of Northwest 26th Street and 15th Avenue.
Morales attributed the shooting that resulted in a ShotSpotter alert and a SWAT team standoff that followed at 1439 NW 26th St. to “some sort of domestic dispute” between Triana, 27, and his 38-year-old brother.
“We don’t know if it was our exchange of gunfire or if it is self-inflicted,” Morales said about Mason Triana, who died inside the house.
Morales described the police officers wounded as a woman who was on patrol and a man with the rank of sergeant. Both have 16 and 17 years of experience with the department.
“Thank God, they are both in stable condition,” Morales said.
The woman officer was later released from the hospital, Local 10 News learned just before noon on Friday.
The police officers underwent surgery. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement was investigating the police-involved shooting.
Suspect’s brother jailed
Meanwhile, Miami police released details about the arrest of Triana’s brother, who they said was “involved in a shooting” before officers arived.
Alan Henry Triana faces charges of harassing a witness in a capital felony case, attempted evidence tampering, possession of armor-piercing ammunition, improper exhibition of a firearm and resisting an officer without violence.
Police redacted numerous details from a publicly released arrest report, but the arrest appears to stem from allegations that Alan Triana was not initially cooperative as investigators spoke with him over the phone as they tried to recover a rifle.
Police were serving a search warrant at the Triana family’s longtime business, ET’s Body Shop at 2319 NW 27th Ave., in connection with the case, according to the report.
The report states that at some point, after another man rode with an officer to show police the location of the gun, Triana let out a “loud scream” and said, “I’ve got your f---ing gun” as he came up from behind them carrying a “white bag with a recognizable rifle barrel protruding from it.”
Police said they held Alan Triana at gunpoint and ordered him to drop the gun and get on the ground. Authorities said he resisted arrest.
The report states that while at the body shop, the Trianas’ cousin said that she and Alan Triana were at their grandmother’s house and heard him talking to detectives over the phone.
“Moments after, (he) grabbed a white plastic bag and asked her to take him to the body shop,” the report states.
Police said they served another search warrant at a location redacted from the report and recovered multiple guns.
Both brothers had a history of violence and weapon possession, according to court records.
Alan Triana was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Friday evening.
He posted bond and was to be set free as soon as he received a GPS ankle monitor.
Case highlights dangers of domestic calls
Former MPD Chief Jorge Colina said the incident shows just how dangerous domestic violence calls are for officers.
“There’s a person who’s willing to harm (those) who they claim to love, right? So if they’re willing to do that, certainly they’re going to be willing to harm a police officer,” Colina said. “And you don’t know that while you’re en route, or even when you arrive.”
Colina said training and cooperation with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office led to a better outcome of a situation that could have been much worse.
“The fact that a round struck them in their leg, their foot, means it could have certainly struck them in their extremity, their head,” he said. “They were fortunate to survive this.”
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